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释义

  1. Places

  2. People

  3. Arts, entertainment, and media

     Fictional entities  Literature  Music 

  4. Computing and technology

  5. Groups or formations

  6. Religion

  7. Roles

  8. Science

  9. See also

{{Wiktionary|host|höst|høst|hosť}}

Host (masculine) and hostess (feminine) most often refer to a person responsible for guests at an event or providing hospitality during it.

Host may also refer to:

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Places

  • Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County

People

  • Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
  • Michel Host (born 1942), French writer
  • "Host", an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken
  • Hosts, alien invaders and overlords in the TV series Colony
  • Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfare, fictional entities in J.R.R. Tolkiens' works
  • Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics' Earth X series of comic books
  • Rutan Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who

Literature

  • Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter
  • Host, a 1993 book by Peter James
  • Hosts (novel), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson
  • The Hosts of Rebecca, a 1960 novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots

Music

  • H.O.S.T., an influential hip-hop group in Azerbaijan
  • Host (Critters Buggin album), 1996
  • Host (Paradise Lost album), 1999

Computing and technology

  • Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
    • Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
    • host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
    • Internet hosting service, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
    • Virtual host, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
  • Host, in hardware virtualization, a machine on which a virtual machine runs
  • Cross compiler, also called a "host", a computer platform on which software development is done for a different target computer platform

Groups or formations

  • Host, an archaic military term for an army
  • Host, a great number; multitude
  • Cossack host, an organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia; host names reflected location or origin
  • Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth

Religion

  • Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
  • Lord of hosts, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
  • Sacramental bread, called the host or hostia, used in Christian liturgy

Roles

  • Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
  • Casino host
  • Maître d'hôtel (Maître d') or head waiter of a restaurant or hotel
  • Master of ceremonies
  • Talk show host, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show

Science

  • Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
  • Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder

See also

  • Hostess (disambiguation)
  • Hosting (disambiguation)
  • The Host (disambiguation)
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